MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 2/05/2022

MONDAY - 2ND MAY, 2022

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FIXATED AND FROZEN FOR GOOD: BAPTIZING CHILDREN BY IMMERSION INTO TRAINING - Vow Series 006

I Samuel 1:11, KJV

"And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head."

I have told you what your vow should be all about when it is the kind you're making for or on behalf of your children. Also, we've seen how to receive what could fuel our vow or commitment towards proper child training. If you'll fix or freeze a child for a way of life now, you know what sort of way of life it should be. That's good. Meanwhile, I'm here to show you better things about that good way of life you've discovered or found by which your child would be ordered. 

When Hannah was making her vow, she said if I be given a male child, then, "I'll give him unto the Lord all the days of his life." Did you see that there? A thing giving to the Lord or to something for all the life of that person here on earth can't but be hinting at total give away, separation, dedication and sanctification. She's releasing fully. Did you see total commitment to a way of life in what she said there at all? Not give and take but giving with immersion or a dipping into in proper. Hannah did because we read her going to Shiloh to make this her vow good after the weaning of Samuel. She dropped off Samuel at the Prophet's or Prophetic Academy as a young chap. That act only commands the attention of the mass media. There were several headlines like, "Wicked Mother Cast Her Baby Away", "The Church Is Under Folly Making Prophets Out Of A Baby With Mucus." All these and many more were the words with which the world busied itself with when Samuel was dropped off. 

At the vowing, Hannah mentioned and decided on the sort of life Samuel would be made to live (to tarry in God's house forever) but that never became a reality until she took him there. That's where the journey begins. Look at me parents. You must seek to make vow or your decisions before God come to pass by taking actions. You assured God this child won't serve the devil. How would you make good of that? Is it by folding arms and not following process by process on how a child could be taught God's fear and way? Hannah having vowed, made it impossible for Samuel to live another life by initiating him into that life and leaving him to live it on and on. So, she thought at the vowing, where's the best place where this boy could be immersed fully into being useful for the Lord? Is it by retaining him at home or by taking him to live with a minister whose job and all he knows and teaches is God, His ways and how to walk with Him. She found her answer. Retaining this boy at home won't do though we also are believers who have learnt God's way. I have my own job to do and the father also has his. We can't give this boy a full time education on this kind of life that lines with the vow I vowed. So, she sold him off to the Lord's house under the tutelage of Eli, a man regarded mighty and honourable in God's understanding of things. 

Hear me, the more you steep your child of vow into the way you vowed or promised to commit him to, the more you're assured you have nothing to fear in the future. It is he who has not done his part that would have occasional fear about a turn of event. Train a child in the way he should go, when he grows up, he won't depart will be your anchor. Once you discover what destiny or purpose that child of yours is to live out here on earth, don't only separate him but separate him fully to that way, path, training, field, profession etc by either sending him to where others longing to become in such way of life are or by home training him by immersing him fully into it. At home, don't let the distraction of home hinder the immersion training.

Verse 24 says and "Samuel was taken to the house of the Lord." She left home where the training would have been diluted to where all he sees, reads, hears, relate with is God and His things. What he learns to be play or game is around God. What he learns to be sleep is around same. Everything is just about God and that made his growth faster. Why? He's having a concentrated education on that way of life. That's why God could call him also early when other children were shut out of God's call. That's why though he didn't know who called but because he was around those who know, he was able to be taught.  God is saying, don't do things half way or mildly. Have you discovered what life, training, calling that child should live. Begin to dose and then overdose him on that. What makes people the best of the best is their well dosage in that field.

PRAYER: I shall not spare my child. To the academy he/she must go. Mighty she must become. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Judges 15:1-16:31; John 2:1-25; Psalm 103:1-22; Proverbs 14:17-19

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 1ST MAY, 2022

SUNDAY - 1ST MAY, 2022

Happy New Month!

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FIXATED FOR THE LORD - Vow Series 005

Proverbs 22:6, KJV

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

Once more, I'll say, don't vow at all. Vow is dangerous if you'll be unfaithful with it. If you're a truce breaker whenever a thing is lent you, it may mean you won't fulfill your vow. Here is a child that is still in heaven. His spirit has not been released to come enter and become a foetus in the mum's womb or let's even say he is already in the womb, but here is someone opening his or her mouth to say, "this is how you shall live." The child is far cut off from what they're saying though he or she may be receiving signals of it and throbbing in the womb. Do you know you could do harm or good by vowing a child away before their birth? Parents do that without consulting with the so called child as to know what sort of life he wants to live. Any way, you don't owe your child such obligation but you owe God. If you enquire of God the life (destiny) He has set for your child and by that revelation orders such, you won't be wrong. If also you decide to order your child in the ways and will of God as already revealed in the Holy Bible, it won't be wrong. But if you vow him into the wrong life or destiny, you won't like it. Let me say a thing. Our vow is not as powerful as the act that follows to process or see that vow to fulfilment. What do I mean? Let's assume you vow a child would become a doctor but refused to train him in the path of becoming that, I can assure you he might not become that doctor. God blessed Hannah with a heart to probably know what was in God's heart in that in her vow, she stipulated such child of hers would be given to the Lord. Does that not coincide or let's say set the stage for a prophet God would need later when we know Eli's sons became reprobate to God? So, Hannah prayed and vowed in line with what God would do. The Holy Spirit is given us to always tune our frequency to where we'll hit the appropriate by praying according to God's desire. We're at more advantage than Hannah. 

A robber may give birth to a child and may vow to his Creator (not his Father. He himself acknowledges that God is not his Father) that the son would become a robber after him. What do you think he'll do if he means it? He'll begin to teach him pickpocketing and buy him books written by robbers on the psychology of entering without notice and picking without observation. Do you know that to a larger extent, he'll achieve his aim? Since a child knows nothing at birth and the mind is in tabularaza form, he'll follow sheepishly until either the Lord has need of him to collect him for Himself or until the child by discovery rebelled to live on in such way. Now, let's ask ourselves the big question. If the child rebelled, would God be unhappy with him or still demand of that child to submit to his father since God wants people's vow to Him to be performed? It is zero and God would have none of that. That vow from the onset was anti-God though man might train his child to fulfill and live in that way but I knew God wouldn't have approved that or let me say I knew the God the Christians serve wouldn't have approved that. You'll agree with me there may be a religion where they vow to concentrate their child to an anti-God and anti-human way even before his birth? How do you explain children soldiers, suicide bombers etc? They groomed them right from after weaning so that by adulthood their conscience would have been seared as not identifying differences between good and evil again. Don't forget that the scripture that says, "teach a child in the way he should go..." is as well dangerous! Why? Because except God's salvation, if a parent trains a hired killer, he might till death be one except by God's interruption. So, use this power of being a parent very well by vowing and training (committing your children) into a line or pattern of living that's the Lord's and His only. The safest of these people are those who vow by vowing what the Lord already fixed the child to be. Knowing or having an inkling on destinies of children before vowing them away matters a lot so you won't set their lives in contradiction with God's best plan later. We may take Hannah as an example though no prophecy sincerely told us that Samuel would be a prophet of the Lord. We could say he became one having began to relate with that realm to the exclusion of others with all attention and love for it. But we might as well ask where he got his love from. If there was no specially inputted love in him from God, he might have departed or strayed from that way when he reached the age of accountability. He could have said he'll like to become a hunter, goldsmith or what have you. So, I'll say Hannah hits a frequency in the spirit before vowing so much more that she vowed the child into the future God was planning for him. May your vow coincide with destiny.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Judges 13:1-14:20; John 1:29-51; Psalm 102:1-28; Proverbs 14:15-16

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 30/04/2022

SATURDAY - 30TH APRIL, 2022

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THE DANGER IN HANNAH'S VOW - Vow Series 004

I Samuel 1:11, KJV

"And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head."

Many people have not seen the danger in Hannah's vow. It is a danger indeed but it's also a danger that's not dangerous. What makes it a danger, you'll see. What makes it also a danger that's not dangerous, you'll as well see. What was Hannah's vow? Give me a man child that I shall give to you all the days of his life and razor shall not come on him! That was her request and we all learnt from the Holy Bible that Hannah didn't defer to katergeo (cut off) Samuel to the Lord. She respected that vow. Also, Samuel's head was kept far from any shaving. 

Now, let's ask a question. What if as Samuel grows with Eli, he lacks desire for God's things and wanted to be a run away boy, who would have been guilty if Samuel left the house of the Lord and then shave his head - break his consecration? Don't forget that that was the vow the mother made on his behalf. Samuel knew nothing but that was done even time ahead of his conception. Should that be enough to free Samuel from this vow of his mother if he had decided to live a rebellious life?

The Spirit told me the first solution to what seems to be a riddle here is to train up a child in the way he should go and when he's old, he'll not depart from same". Did Hannah do that? How did she do that? By sending off Samuel away from herself to acclimatize with the Lord before the great age of accountability. She did her own by cutting off Samuel immediately when Samuel couldn't have had will to say, "no, I am not going. I am not going to walk on that road you have earmarked for me before birth." Hannah must have sent Samuel away so early and immediately after weaning because she was forecasting the boy might change his mind and decide on another road of living if she doesn't point him to one which she already vowed as what would raise him up. So, the Justice of the Lord would have discharged Hannah if when Samuel got to Eli's place and as he matures begins to really misbehave out of his set life. Notwithstanding, if that happens and Hannah is still alive, would Hannah not still be under obligation to call Samuel to order and remind him of the life she vowed and fixed for him which he must live by? Yes and this is how I know. 

Proverbs 31:1-4, KJV

"1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. 2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? 3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

That's a mother warning and telling the child not to live somehow because he's a child of her vow. It means after the vowing, a straying from it should follow a remembrance from parents to their children. Tell them, it is not good that they live that way they've suddenly slipped into. It's contrary to their vowed lifestyle. 

If Samuel had shaven his hair, left the Prophet's Academy and ran to the parks and garage with hot crying in honesty of heart from Hannah yet without Samuel's repentance, God would have discharged Hannah to hold Samuel accountable because Samuel is aware of what life he should live and what calling that vow has placed on him but now does contrarily. He'll also be held accountable because he has reached the age of accountability and could decide or choose for himself. But this should not deter parents from ordering their children in the way they should go. Also, when they miss it, they should remind them of who they really are or called to be and be called back. That principle works and works much of the time. The human mind at birth is a clean slate - having tabularaza mind. It is what you fill it with that would be the manifestation of your child. Begin to familiarize your little baby with God's way and they shall never depart from it.

PRAYER: Lord, I shall not hide your prophecies and promises from my issues. Instruct me to instruct them. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Judges 9:22-10:18; Luke 24:13-53; Psalm 100:1-5; Proverbs 14:11-12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE -- 29/04/2022

 FRIDAY - 29TH APRIL, 2022

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JEPHTHAH HARMED HIMSELF IN VOWING - Vow Series 003

Read Judges 11

Judges 11:31, KJV

"Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering."

One major person I sympathised with who became a victim of his vow is Jephthah. This is where this Bible verse finds fulfilment on him.

Psalms 15:1,4 KJV 

"1 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? 4 ...He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not."

Jephthah has been fetched by the elders of Gilead to lead them to war and fight against the Ammonite on their behalf. For Jephthah to have sworn, that task was not easy in his sight. What you must know is that no one vows under ease. Vowing is done when pressurized, in fear, great need or uncertainty. That's why all these great emotions that pervade the air at the time of seeking help or deliverance may blindfold one's reason. Many people are not different from he who went to borrow money and was asked how much he'll be able to pay back monthly but mentioned an exaggerated amount in order to look serious and impressing to the lender. Many of them don't keep their word. You'll see them lagging behind and by that they'll destroy their reputation with their creditor. There's this idea in human mind that does believe in the using of vow to stir up God. It is a challenge anyway both to human and to God. If He was unavailable before he'll think, at my vowing, He comes to fight my battle now. However, vowing is not to be considered as a tool for bribery. 

Jephthah however didn't specify his obligation to God more specifically. He said at his victory, he'll sacrifice to God whatsoever comes out of the door of his house to meet him. Yet, humans live in that same house with him! What was he thinking? Did his householders went on vacation before? Was his daughter in boarding school and was not expecting her at home? Or was Jephthah domesticating some animals? You could go on and on proposing this and that as to why Jephthah would make a vow that was open ended. That vow had no full stop behind it. It was like a fill in the gap vow. It's not different from an open cheque yet. Why? He didn't specify what he would sacrifice. He said, "whatsoever!" That's where event that God permits came in to make a choice of her daughter. 

At conquest, Jephthah arrived in fulfilment having defeated the Ammonites but alas, look at who came out of his house to meet him rejoicing. The daughter was happy that her father had just won the victory. That's typical of females to do even when it is their husband who has just hit it big. However, Jephthah couldn't believe his eyes. He lamented it but quieted himself like a man to do like he has said. The most shocking is that that's his only child. Just his only child. When you make your vow, under no condition should you leave it open ended. I told you, you have been given the right to fix for both yourself your desire and your obligation to Him. Choose it specifically, wisely and lift it to God. Let Him see it ahead of time. You'll observe that despite the unfortunate situation Jephthah fell into, God didn't appear to Him from heaven in sympathy that the vow's terms should be reviewed. There's no reviewing in vow. Once you peg it down, you're on your own. God didn't force the terms on you, you choose and He will judge you by your own mouth. So, bridle your mouth. Jephthah knowing this told the daughter, I can't but do unto you as I have vowed. The daughter knowing what weight vow carries and knowing that God has kept His part of the terms to her father also agreed to it until she was indeed offered up to God. Watch your mouth. I'm telling you. Don't let your reason be clouded. After man might have received what he longs for, the scales do fall off his eyes to see his errors. See your fault and error before you vow. Don't trap yourself. Exercise caution.

PRAYER: I receive a heart of wisdom in vowing. I shall exercise faithfulness in deed on all my confessions. 

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Judges 8:18-9:21; Luke 23:44-24:12; Psalm 99:1-9; Proverbs 14:9-10

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 28/04/2022

THURSDAY - 28TH APRIL, 2022

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DON'T HURT YOURSELF IN VOWING - Vow Series 002

I Samuel 1:10-11, KJV

"10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore. 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou...wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head."

In all your vowing; please, don't hurt yourself. I said a thing yesterday in Series 001 on the mercy of vowing. It is with God but He has given it to the children of men. God has already being tender to all human kind in that we set the terms both for He and ourselves. Since people have been coming to God, He has not before specified to them what their obligation would be towards Him on vowing. The reason might not be far fetched. He wants them to be able to bear the burden they'll measure unto themselves. However, as far as we all know and we'll agree with, many men amidst men have not lived up to this in spite of God's mercy that allows them set the terms. Why should you hurt yourself? Is there anyone here who a billionaire you know so would give an open cheque to for a sum you yourself prefers who won't seek to please himself even if he'll show mercy in his request to that freewill giver? If you'll in that wise decide to your favour, you should in vowing be reasonable and not allow your importunity dictate to you. Does the scripture not says, if prophecy, prophesy according to the proportion of your faith (Rom.12:6, KJV)." If there's a thing like that which seeks to regulate by what faith, boldness, assurance and veracity (big or small) people prophesy, I'm thinking you should vow in proportion to what you could conveniently pay. Introspect before you vow and set your obligation in accordance to what won't break you or later get deferred.

God is not saying, "impress me by vowing." He already stated clearly that you don't need to vow especially if you won't fulfill it. Vowing is not the primary way given us to make our requests known to God. It is in praying and exercising faith! Praying by holding God's promises and prophecies to Him is enough as that our Father who's in heaven even honours his Word above His name (Matthew 6:5-13, Psalm 138:2). So, watch it! Whenever you're to make a vow, let the terms favour you. Don't think God would be displeased if you choose the most insignificant thing to do like "joining the social workers to clean the church only or doing the least of the least." Also, let me advise you if you're proud or egoistic, don't set as your obligation to God the doing of a humiliating or flesh crucifying thing. It's not because I want you to remain proud. It's so that you won't defer paying it since Satan might begin to ask you to reconsider and you might think, "a whole I rolling on the floor and what would my fans think." Simply put, each should choose obligation to God in the area of their strength where their faithfulness is easily given. So, it is not how big or small your obligation to God is that moves or dissuades Him from answering. If that be, collecting things from God through vowing would have been the easiest thoroughfare which everybody would be threading to have their demands. One would tell God, "if you could give me 100,000,000 this month, I'll pay 20% to church." Even despite how profitable this request and deal is to any mind reading it, you'll agree some men with cunning, crooked, and unfaithful life would still want to review the deal later wondering what God would do with that whole half. Even when God does not allow any condition arise as need or unforseen contingency i.e medical crisis that may claim their own fifty million off, they'll still say, "God's too much." I ask, did you not halve the money to God? But let me tell you, if you suddenly discover at that time that an operation for you or a beloved would cost 50 million exactly to execute, go ahead and not cultivate thought of making any of the vowed 20% of God yours. It can't but be the test of Abraham whom God gave a child and demanded same from him. He was faithful and God gave him a ram instead of his son. You'll be shocked to find the disease suddenly disappear at the final checkup for the surgery if you've proved your faithfulness by sending God's half to church yet in the face of that crisis. God would regard you as very faithful and you won't have to pay bills for operation again since God has become your salvation now. 

People, set terms in proportion to what you could pay and not what you're asking. Hannah did herself that favour. How did I know that to a good extent? "But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever (I Samuel 1:22, KJV).

Did you see determination there that she really meant to keep that vow? She missed Shiloh until the boy would be ready to be packaged as a give away to God. Her heart of wanting to give Samuel away is indeed revealed in her confession to Elkanah. It is what you find not too heavy to do you become prompt and decisive with. Did you see her promptness and decision there? Hannah thus sure set an obligation she'll be able to pay. She needs a child and to her, it could just be to erase the reproach that she's barren in life. She seems not to worry much as to whether the child grows up with her or not. That's the prove! Don't be unnecessarily moved to inflate what you'll do which you may not do because you feel as human, "I must balance the equation. If He'll be doing this much for me, I must do unto him that much also." It's written no where on vowing. Rather, faithfulness to whatsoever you have set by heart or mouth is what matters in vowing. You won't lose credit worthiness with God if you're a quick payer of your vows. He'll esteem and have great regard for you.

PRAYER: Let me have a revelation of what the prayer of faith is and its importance as to know I don't need vowing. I grow in faith and grace to pull and receive. I vow according to the proportion of my faithfulness.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Judges 7:1-8:17; Luke 23:13-43; Psalm 97:1-98:9; Proverbs 14:7-8

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - 27/04/2022

WEDNESDAY - 27TH APRIL, 2022

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GIVE IT AWAY IMMEDIATELY - Vow Series 001

Read I Samuel 1

I Samuel 1:24, KJV

"And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young."

It is hard giving away but you must learn to give away. It could even become harder when you make a vow. Have you observe that after making a vow, fulfilment of same always seems too high. That's why conclusively, the Bible admonishes you not to vow at all if you won't keep it (Eccl.5:4-5). Rather, simply pray on your requests and don't be a vain speaker because God won't hold you guiltless. Hannah vowed unto the Lord. It was a vow of agony and extreme bitterness. She's been under besetting mockery from Peninnah whose quiver is full of arrows. 

I Samuel 1:11, KJV

"And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head."

At the weaning of baby Samuel, Hannah didn't tarry, she refused to delay but rather tore Samuel off herself to the the Lord as vowed. How easy is this? Couldn't she have changed her mind after birthing Samuel? She could but she did not. Try imagining someone who has been reproached for years who now has one that she should take comfort in but which something suddenly collects same from her. How easy would it be? Some people would have said, "God, let us revisit this thing. What would people say if they hear I'm no longer with child. Won't they call me wicked for wanting to cut off such a kid as this?" It is at moment like this that people suddenly become reasonable. Previously, they were ruled by extravagant emotion. Many of such didn't consider what they were saying well while vowing. They thought the mightiness of their words is what would compel God to answer them. So, they swell and swear big and at the end shelves the responsibility - which is keeping their own side. The mercy in vowing is that you set the terms yourself: both yours and God. God doesn't impose or tell you what He'll agree on before He blesses you. So, you'll be sincerely and indeed guilty if at last what you said you would do seems too big to you to now do. 

We should learn from Hannah who's a human of like passion like us all. I knew she faced her temptation of keeping Samuel longer but she didn't. She disciplined herself having known a rule that the more I keep this boy with me, the more it becomes difficult cutting him off to the Lord later. Nothing in her vow stipulates sending off Samuel to the Lord's house at such a tender age when he gets weaned. When Hannah said, "and I would give him to the Lord all the days of his life", she could have done that at a later age of Samuel and not at weaning but I suppose her conscience bore her witness to release the boy at such a tender age and then after weaning. To Hannah, "and I'll give him to God all the days of his (Samuel's) life" is justified to begin after weaning. That's what her conscience allowed and she didn't violate it though really tough to do for any mother. That's why as soon as Samuel was weaned, she closed her eyes and pretend to be a wicked mother but sent him to the academy of the prophets that soonest and immediately. Her vow was to release the boy and she was quick to make it good. Samuel departed to the prophet's academy so early that the Bible witnessed, "and the child was young." I knew everybody must have wondered at the absurdity of such mother to have cut off such a little child away from herself yet at such a tender age. It costs her but she paid her part of the vow fully. Hannah isn't a spirit but a human. Learn from her and not delay to pay your vow or all other already prescribed obligations to the Lord i.e tithe. The more you delay, the easier it becomes forgetting and harder to redeem. So, as soon as you receive alert, let it be the first thing you cast out from you. Revere God this much and He'll take cognizance of you the more. 

PRAYER: Father, show me my irredeemable vows and I shall make them good. Help me to keep any future ones and restrain my lips from quickly vowing.

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Judges 6:1-40; Luke 22:54-23:12; Psalm 95:1-96:13; Proverbs 14:5-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE 26/04/2022

TUESDAY - 26TH APRIL, 2022

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A GREAT STORY OF AMENDMENT 

READ John 4:46-54

John 4:52, KJV

"Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him".

Recovery is possible. Restoration can be an experience. Many stories of powerful recoveries litter the Bible. In real life also, I've seen and experienced cases of recovery also. 

Jesus sent word ahead of a man to his son who is sick and at the point of death. Jesus only says, "your son lives". When this man eventually reaches home and investigates when the boy begins to get better, he could trace it to that hour of Jesus' prayer. So, all the glory goes back to Jesus for the testimony could be traced to Him only. No qualms or contest on who has done it and should be praised instead.

Today however, I am concerned with that piece of question the father's boy asked to ascertain when the boy adjusted in his position and condition of health.

"Then enquired he of them the hour when he _began to amend_ ". 

"began to amend" is the phrase needed. What does it mean to amend? It means to begin to readjust. If you say a thing amends, it mean a leaving of its old positioning to taking a new positioning. When that man asked when his boy began to amend, he was asking in essence when his health started to depart from where it was - the deteriorating condition to going back to good health. God wants us be in health - the correct position we should be and shows more than a passing interest to take us back to health when there's deviation from good health. Mind you, deviation is deviation whether little or big. Signs of fever shows deviation.

III John 1:2, KJV

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth".

"Amend" suggests a thing that passes phases before it gets to the desired or expected phase of correctness, completion or perfection. If a genotype is AS and one prays and amendment begins to take place, you'll observe at the end a deviation from the AS position known since all this while to a new and recent position of being AA.

For a thing to amend takes process but the process might not be noticed because it is supernaturally quickened. So, it would look as if it never took time to ameliorate in the first instance. There is a road to walk without compromise. Since the Lord gave me this revelation of "amend", I have told different situations to begin to amend. When they did, those things begin to change position gradually like a water that is drying up until it dries wholly. It just didn't dry once and for all. It passes through phases to finally get to the drought stage where you could say, " and it is no more!"

I'm anointed to minister to you. First of all, are you carrying sicknesses or any terminal illness in your body? I don't have time to mention them all but I'm declaring, "let your body, health and condition amend!" You will not cross over without the correctness being done and the wrong being made right by Jehovah. I declare that wherever you've been taken away from your original position, begin to amend until you attain that former utopia.

Naaman has leprosy but when he is prayed for, a testimony follows.

II Kings 5:14, KJV

"Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean".

Did you read that part that indicates recovery, restoration and amendment? Where it says, "and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean". "That coming again" though seems to have happened instantaneously actually passed through a process of amending before it reaches a place of utmost cleanness where no traces of leprosy could be identified.

I pray, the God of amendment is amending all the things that need to be in their perfect form as you've entered this month. I prophesy also that April shall amend. You shall know it to be a different month that answers to your words.

PRAYER: God of amendment, take me back to any original utopia deviated from. I amend in health, genotype, financial status, marital, spiritual conditions.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Deuteronomy 13:1-15:23, Luke 8:40-9:6, Psalm 71:1-24, Proverbs 12:5-7

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